I am a total Ruby/RoR n00b having just started reading the ‘Ruby on
Rails Bible’ book two days ago. I’ve been trying to work out through
the introductory ‘Your first ruby on rails application’ section, but
I’ve run into problems already!

The book goes on about creating the view templates and naming them
with the *.html.erb extension, but I get run-time errors when I use
that extension. I have seen some other RoR sites that use the *.rhtml
extension so I tried that instead and that seemed to fix my problem.

But isn’t that the old rails file naming convention? I want to use the
proper/new convention but I’m not sure what I need to do … perhaps
update Ruby or Rails or ??? on my computer? Or is it something I have
misconfigured?

I’m developing on a Mac and these are the versions of Ruby and RoR I
currently have installed: